Cody

Hey, I'm Cody! I'm nonbinary and queer; I use they/she pronouns. I'm currently creating a show called Century Park. Minor, please be considerate.

[codythefool]

What Is Century Park, and Why Have I Been Seeing 500 Posts About It On My Dash? Also Why Is It Trending???

Hey! I'm Cody, and I'm making a cartoon called Century Park.

Today the cast and crew decided to post a ton of stuff about it to raise awareness and try to get trending. And while we may not have gotten trending (curse you, Taylor Swift and Brooklyn 99!!!) we definitely did raise awareness.

Actually, while writing this post we started trending at #6!!!! YAY!!!

Century Park follows two teenagers, Echo and Molly, after they accidentally fall through a portal to another world called Faeria and help fight in a rebellion against the reigning tyrant. Along the way, they meet some new friends, like Felix, a trans 13 year old who controls shadow and light; Axel, a mage who's kept himself 10 years old for a decade and a half; Oliviera, who led the first rebellion 15 years ago and restarts it again now; Lexa, Oliviera's wife who loves challah and adopts thousands of children; Robin, a mysterious rogue; and Forrest, a chaotic 11 year old, for starters. Together they learn some life lessons, laugh, cry, form a found family, be gay do crimes, uncover repressed trauma, gain some new trauma, and teach some people who believe they're unlovable that they matter. It's all very fun.

We also have a lot of queer characters, disabled characters, muslim/hijabi/niqabi characters, Jewish characters, characters of color, etc. Which is stuff that our crew wished we could've seen growing up, or seen more often now in cartoons, which is also pretty cool.

So how can I support this show?

Well, you can join the crew! You can apply here to be an animator and here to audition to voice act Echo.

You can be a fan! We need these very badly tbh. You can follow @centurypark and #century park, and follow cast and crew members. We're trying to get you content as fast as possible. Also, we're pouring our hearts and souls into this show and watching it on youtube once it's out and hitting that like button would mean the world to us.

Thank you so much for learning about our show today, we're absolutely thrilled with the amount of attention Century Park got today! And also, if you're mutuals with a bunch of crew members... we're very sorry lol.

[codythefool]

Me: *comes up with a twisted arc for a character in which they go on a downward spiral after being manipulated and experimented on and become more and more self-destructive as the series goes on and make some horrible decisions that hurt a ton of people but it's not totally their fault but it also is and while I don't really like to call my characters good or bad people this guy is technically morally grey but he's definitely leaning very heavily towards the 'bad guy' side and posts about it randomly in the discord at like 1pm on a Wednesday*

Me: Also the series might end with a water balloon fight.

The crew: YAY! WATER BALLOON FIGHT!

[memories]

you wouldn’t download a #century park.

[transkingoryx]

yes i would

[codythefool]

I have actually

[codythefool]

The Indie Animation Boom Continues in 2022 - Pop Culture Maniacs

In 2022, indie animation boom, mostly funded through crowdfunding efforts continues, bringing joy to creators, artists, voice actors, and vi

Beyond excited that Century Park got a mention in here!

[cornbread-but-cringey]

[ID: screenshot from the linked article that reads the following:

There is more "indie animated goodness," as Whitman termed it. This includes series in development with a focus on magic and adventures like Warlocks of Wrath High, Century Park, True Tail, Stars Align, Wimp Which, and Evelynne Doom. There are many other

the text cuts off there. the names of the series are in orange italics. end ID]

[codythefool]

The Indie Animation Boom Continues in 2022 - Pop Culture Maniacs

In 2022, indie animation boom, mostly funded through crowdfunding efforts continues, bringing joy to creators, artists, voice actors, and vi

Beyond excited that Century Park got a mention in here!

[m4n14cartoon]

M4N14

M4N14 is a cartoon following the story of a group of teenagers and a rather sarcastic young man as they are thrown into a fantasy world they never knew existed. The plot is as follows.

High school students and close friends, Blair and Amelia, get pulled into a mysterious world by a man named Alestair, who claims they were destined to appear in his world, in which they meet other teenagers who had ended up there in one way or another. Will they manage to return home before dinner, or will they get trapped in a world that may need their help?

This is a really big project I'm hoping to accomplish, and I'm going to need some help! The list below shows what staff we need to pull this off.

Script Writers

Artists/Animators

Character Designers

Sensitivity Readers

Social Media Mods (Discord, Tumblr, Twitter)

Voice Actors

And more!

Here is where you can apply to become part of the staff!

Create a new survey on your own or with others at the same time. Choose from a variety of survey types and analyze results in Google Forms.

You can direct any questions to this blog through asks and dms or dm @thewholesomebean

We're excited to get to work on this! To anyone who applies, a Discord server will be created soon and any information the staff needs will be posted there. Updates will be posted here and will be under the #M4N14 or #m4n14 tags.

Even if you aren't interested in helping out, please spread this post around!

[trzpiotka]

support Polish lgbtq teens

Hey guys, you probably heard about the situation of queer folks in Poland. The ruling party has made homo- and transphobia into a new national virtue. Around 1/3 of local authorities adopted resolutions about fighting “gender ideology”. Gender transition in Poland is a very complicated and expensive process. All of this puts young queer people in a vulnerable situation, resulting in appalling rates of mental illness affecting them. On top of that, children’s psychiatric wards are overcrowded and one region doesn’t have such ward at all. (It’s Podlasie with a population of 1,8 million people.)

The poster above was made by the illustrator Szarosen. It reads “[Please] love me, mom and dad”. It’s a response to posters with the slogan “Love each other, mom and dad” which appeared across many towns in Poland. The organization responsible for those is known to be anti-divorce and has fundamentalist ties, advocating for married couples staying together despite home abuse. Szarosen’s drawing points to the lack of support, discrimination and even violence which many queer kids have to face, sometimes from their own families.

Anyway, here are links to some fundraising campaigns:

1 initially fundraising for the posters, now for psychological and legal help for lgbt individuals 

2 transitions 

[trzpiotka]

new links for donations:

https://www.transfuzja.org/fundacja/wesprzyj-nas (Trans-Fusion, charity advocating for trans people)

https://kph.org.pl/kontakt/ (Campaign Against Homophobia)

https://mnw.org.pl/wspieram/ (Love Doesn’t Exclude)

https://grupa-stonewall.pl/wsparcie/ (Stonewall Group)

[transkingoryx]

Are you an Indigenous voice actor or aspiring voice actor? Do you want the chance to work on a cartoon? Well, here it is!!

@centurypark is a cartoon about a nonbinary Indigenous* teen named Echo, and their best friend Molly, who stumble into a magical world and get wrapped up in a quest to defeat the reigning tyrant, Q.

We have Episode One written, and are currently working on storyboarding, but before we can move to animating, we need a voice actor for Echo!

If you are interested, reply to this post or DM me as soon as you can! We’re looking forward to having you on the team :)

*Echo is specifically part of the Samish tribe

[codythefool]

Hey! Are you Indigenous? Do you think you'd be a good fit for Echo? Please try out we're getting desperate.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfL2GJuSXBQMnTR_P8ee92m-DQuMd6gM_o2xdLbTyiNQX8ZcQ/viewform

[transkingoryx]

Are you an Indigenous voice actor or aspiring voice actor? Do you want the chance to work on a cartoon? Well, here it is!!

@centurypark is a cartoon about a nonbinary Indigenous* teen named Echo, and their best friend Molly, who stumble into a magical world and get wrapped up in a quest to defeat the reigning tyrant, Q.

We have Episode One written, and are currently working on storyboarding, but before we can move to animating, we need a voice actor for Echo!

If you are interested, reply to this post or DM me as soon as you can! We’re looking forward to having you on the team :)

*Echo is specifically part of the Samish tribe

[codythefool]

We do also have a Google form if you'd rather not dm, you can find it here.

[codythefool]

Hey everyone, this is getting kind of urgent. We REALLY need a voice actor for Echo. You don't need any voice acting experience (a lot of our VAs have done musical theatre or something before, but while that's encouraged it's not required) or a fancy mic or anything, you just need to be Indigenous and be believable as a 14 year old.

[weedplantar]

Graphic design is my passion

[steveyockey]

halyna hutchins’s death was 100% preventable and is absolutely part of the same labor issues iatse has been fighting to rectify and making it about anything else or anyone else is disrespectful

[codythefool]

Century Park characters as random lyrics from songs in my playlist:

Echo: Don't wanna live as an untold story, rather go out in a blaze of glory

Molly: There's a world and there's a war and there's the folks she's fighting for.

Felix: But I kept runnin' for a soft place to fall

Axel: If I could just find the time, then I would never let another day go by, yeah I'm over getting older

Eurydice:

Lyric: Finds a group of friends that love her, though she's had to leave her mother she'll be fine. She can think about the sad another time.

Robin: I believe it all is coming to an end, oh well, I guess we're gonna pretend

Zoey: The black, the white, they look the same to me. There's only power but they don't agree.

Unnamed Character #1: I bit the apple cuz I trusted you, and why would you lie.

Unnamed Character #2: Look me in the eye, tell me I'm the monster, put your hand in mine, say that I'm a goner

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I just had to put a few unnamed characters bc I'm veeery excited for them. 👀👀👀 (iykyk)

[codythefool]

(Full art)

IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) is going on strike on Monday. IATSE represents a ton of crew members who work on shows and movies, including animation workers*. They're striking for safe working conditions, livable wages, streaming inequalities, and more.

*Animation workers are represented by the Animation Guild, Local 839 of IATSE. Some of the studios whose employees they represent are Disney TVA, Walt Disney Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Marvel Animation, Nickelodeon Animation, and more.

Petition mentioned in the tweets above

A link to the IATSE website

A link to the Animation Guild's website

[codythefool]

Attention, everyone! The strike's been called off because.... IATSE made a deal!

[codythefool]

(Full art)

IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) is going on strike on Monday. IATSE represents a ton of crew members who work on shows and movies, including animation workers*. They're striking for safe working conditions, livable wages, streaming inequalities, and more.

*Animation workers are represented by the Animation Guild, Local 839 of IATSE. Some of the studios whose employees they represent are Disney TVA, Walt Disney Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Marvel Animation, Nickelodeon Animation, and more.

Petition mentioned in the tweets above

A link to the IATSE website

A link to the Animation Guild's website

[codythefool]

Attention, everyone! The strike's been called off because.... IATSE made a deal!

[codythefool]

(Full art)

IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) is going on strike on Monday. IATSE represents a ton of crew members who work on shows and movies, including animation workers*. They're striking for safe working conditions, livable wages, streaming inequalities, and more.

*Animation workers are represented by the Animation Guild, Local 839 of IATSE. Some of the studios whose employees they represent are Disney TVA, Walt Disney Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Marvel Animation, Nickelodeon Animation, and more.

Petition mentioned in the tweets above

A link to the IATSE website

A link to the Animation Guild's website

[strideofpride]

What would crossing the picket line be considered with this strike? I'm seeing people say support them, but does that mean I stop watching streaming services for the entirety of the strike? Or would it be something different?

As far as I know, no one is currently calling for a boycott. A boycott probably wouldn’t be too effective anyway cause no new content would be coming out if the strike lasts more than a month. Crossing the picket line would be accepting work in formerly union positions (aka scabbing). Right now the best way to show support is just to be loud on social media that you will stand behind IATSE in whatever they ask. I’m sure IATSE will have more information that I guess I can share here once the strike vote is held.

[strideofpride]

People on here still talk about the 2007 writers’ strike 14 years later, yet it’s been crickets regarding the upcoming potential IATSE strike. THIRTEEN locals might be striking, the entire entertainment industry could potentially shut down, all because studios refuse to basically give workers human rights (one of the things they are fighting for is meal breaks. MEAL BREAKS!). In fact, studios want to get rid of meal penalties entirely and DOUBLE the already substantial hours needed to qualify for healthcare. David vs Goliath in it’s finest form.

If you enjoy film and television at all, you should be standing behind IATSE. Check out @ia_stories on Instagram to read some industry horror stories and educate yourself further here.